But that doesn’t start for another couple of weeks. First off, I’m going to
get in some sightseeing and Spanish language classes. Then, after the
conference, I hope to explore a bit more of the country before coming home.
It’ll be a month before I’m back in the States.

Which is to say that things are likely to be quieter than usual in
Picket Line land. I’ve saved up some excerpts from
the archives that I can post at intervals when I find myself with some time
to kill and an internet cafe nearby, but otherwise, I’m on vacation. When I
get back I’ll let you know all about how the conference went.

Some bits and pieces from here and there:

Another town in Catalonia, Alella, has begun refusing to
forward its municipal taxes to the Spanish central government and is
instead paying the money to the Taxation Agency of Catalonia, as part of a
spreading Catalan nationalist tax resistance movement.
(Més)

If you missed the conference call with Cindy Sheehan, Ruth Benn, Ed
Hedemann and three other war tax resisters talking shop, you can hear
a recording
here.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has
an update on tax fraud perpetrated by U.S. prisoners, an industry that has been
growing in recent years. In 2010, prisoners
filed at least 91,434 tax returns that claimed $757,600,000 in refunds
that they did not legally qualify for. The
IRS
caught most of this in time, but still issued $35,200,000 in refunds they
wish they hadn’t.

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